“Well, actually“

Anything to pretend Covid never happened I guess

The classiest hotel conference room there is!

Now let’s fill every office with delightfully normal/exceptional humans and make being absurdly rich the liability it should be.

Somehow I’ve gone from joy to feeling really mad about the electoral college again?? So out of practice I thwart myself!

something something criticism can’t thrive in a culture that can’t distinguish between authority of bluster and authority of expertise and I feel old

as though the authority that comes with expertise seeks acquiescence rather than engagement

When I was teaching a class on cultural criticism, I remember a student saying that they didn’t read reviews because the didn’t want to be told what to think—which is of course a misunderstanding of what criticism intends to do, but it’s also revealing…

(while also somehow quoting every Frankenstein film adaptation, INCLUDING the 1910 short. Remarkable. Pity the poor woman in the bathroom afterwards who asked me how I liked it)

It’s delicata season, mfers